by wpengine | Mar 16, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Anita Viola Sganzerla, Curator Angelica Kauffman RA (1741–1807) was one of the most distinguished and successful women artists of her time. Educated, talented, sophisticated, attractive, she charmed the art world, fellow artists, and patrons alike. From...
by wpengine | Feb 8, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Nina Reid, MA student of Art History, University of Amsterdam Today marks the 255-year anniversary of the death of flower painter Catharina Backer (Amsterdam 1689–Leiden 1766). She grew up surrounded by her father’s great art collection and was spoon-fed...
by wpengine | Dec 21, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Kelsey Brosnan, PhD in Art History, Rutgers University On December 12, 2020, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its European Paintings galleries, largely closed to the public for the past two years. One of the newly reinstalled spaces...
by wpengine | Dec 18, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Paris A. Spies-Gans, Harvard Society of Fellows In July 2020, an oil painting appeared on the art market that had long been thought lost (fig. 1). A medium-sized canvas, 111 x 145 centimeters (3.6 x 4.7 feet), it depicted a sinuous woman in white,...
by wpengine | Nov 16, 2019 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Golob, Researcher, Advancing Women Artists The eighteenth century was a time of tremendous change in Florence, Italy. Politically, the Medici era was coming to an end and the basic infrastructure of the city was in a state of decline. Florence—like...
